Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Scheme. The high sheen on Sun was due largely to one man, Hollywood's Oscar-winning Producer-Director Frank Capra, 58, who spent four years making the show. "It was a labor of love," he says. "I just wanted to prove science could be diverting." To Italian-born Showman Capra, a chemical-engineering graduate of Cal Tech, Mr. Sun is no documentary but "a show, with accurate physical facts-a fresh attempt to glamorize science." So are his three upcoming TV ventures for Bell: Hemo, The Magnificent, the story of blood and circulation; The Strange Case...
...teaching and administration. Indications are strong that such a venture will be launched once its participants can agree on its precise nature and location. When it comes time for Harvard to decide whether or not to participate in such an experimental venture, many of the aspects of the cooperative scheme may justifiably be questioned. In particular, the University must decide whether it will gain as much in prestige and new ideas as it could lose through imposing new burdens on Harvard's Faculty and resources. The ultimate decision--coming from the responsible leader of American higher education--will have...
...refutes the contention that his proposed changes would result in a "soak-the-rich" scheme. The burden of taxes would be spread throughout, since a lowering of personal exemptions would mean that lower income groups would share the costs...
Wyatt's scheme worked so well that Tennessee suddenly found itself boasting an unbeaten team. In seven games, the Volunteers made the most of their breaks, picked up 15 enemy fumbles, turned nine of them into scores. In between, they fielded a fast, shifty, single-wing offense, built around the talents of Quarterback Johnny Majors. His unerring quick kicks became a sharp offensive weapon; his passes were almost always on target. On rollout, run-pass option plays he gave the best defense fits. His pixyish, mincing gait was faster than it looked, and he proved...
...whole thing points to an obvious British-and-French inspired pretext for snatching Suez. Even President Eisenhower seems not to be taken in, which reveals how bald the scheme is. It amounts to the most anachronistic type of diplomacy running--the old gun-boat grab, and an inordinantly blatant specimen at that...